Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance

By Michael Green and Jim Taggart

Tall Wood buildings have been at the foreground of innovative buildingpractice in urban contexts for a number of years. From London toStockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20storeys have been built, are under construction or being considered.This dynamic trend was enabled by developments in the material itself,prefabrication and more flexibility in fire regulations. The low CO2footprint of wood - often regionally sourced - is another strongargument in its favour. This publication explains the typicalconstruction types such as panel systems, frame and hybrid systems. Aninternational selection of 13 case studies is documented in detail withmany specially prepared construction drawings, demonstrating the rangeof the technology. Publisher: Birkhauser